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Hi, could you touch on why F-Droid is less safe? Is it because they package (I think that's the term?) stuff themselves?
Certainly.
To answer your question: yeah, pretty much.
I got all of this information, originally, through this guy's channel (Side Of Burritos on YouTube):
It's also worth mentioning that part three of that series ended up directly inspiring another project called Obtanium, which he then did a video on here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiN37bn0OE8
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://www.piped.video/watch?v=IzpVI4zaso0
https://www.piped.video/watch?v=lAbgeJau3eE
https://www.piped.video/watch?v=FFz57zNR_M0
https://www.piped.video/watch?v=JiN37bn0OE8
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